State Lawmakers Need an Economic Opportunity Strategy

Milwaukee: Today Citizen Action of Wisconsin, a statewide advocacy group with 38,000 members, released a scathing critique of Wisconsin’s failed economic policies, and a bold strategy to expand economic opportunity to every corner of our state.

“Wisconsin economic development policy is a stunning failure not only because we are generating fewer jobs than other states, but because the jobs we are creating are economy-busting poverty wage jobs,” said Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin. “There is currently no economic strategy that deserves the name. Until we develop clear benchmarks and long term goals, and hold policymakers accountable for reaching them, the middle class will continue to decline and we will continue our drift into a poverty-wage economy.”